Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Erwin's StarOffice Tango
Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
... or why Open Competition matters

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Donnerstag Mai 19, 2005

"don't click on the blue e!: Switching to Firefox"
"I've been using Firefox for about six months and really didn't know the power of the browser until I read this book. I mainly like the capability to use Tabs to view web pages, and its popup killer, and had no clue with regard to the other features."
The full article can be found here.
( Mai 19 2005, 08:24:51 PM CEST ) Permalink

"Java developer community is defining the standard"
I just found this:
"He added that with the entire source code for next generation Mustang being available on java.net, Java developers could contribute to the next standards of Java. "So the Java developer community is defining the standard," he said."
( Mai 19 2005, 08:23:03 PM CEST ) Permalink

Polish OpenOffice.org Native-Lang Project announced
This got just announced on a mailing list of the OpenOffice.org native-lang project:
"The Native-Lang Confederation of OpenOffice.org greets today a long-awaited member. The Polish Native-Lang project (http://pl.openoffice.org), led by Adam Dereszkiewicz, gathers all the local polish initiatives and communities in one single and efficient project designed to spread OpenOffice.org in Polish language."
( Mai 19 2005, 08:20:11 PM CEST ) Permalink

Just switch! - Printing large Spreadsheets in StarOffice 8
StarOffice 8 provides a lot of flexibility with respect to printing out large spreadsheet documents. In order to setup the page layout one has to bring up the "Page Style" dialog via "Format - Page ...":

Within the "Page Style" dialog one can define the paper format and orientation.

On the "Sheet" tab one can either select to scale the printout by a given percentage ...

... or by a specified number of pages:

( Mai 19 2005, 12:45:45 PM CEST ) Permalink

"First Look: Netscape's Two-Headed Browser"
"Netscape 8
***-- [three out of five stars]
Combining the engines of Mozilla Foundation's Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer in a single browser is a neat trick, but Firefox is smaller, simpler, just as safe, and--in some important ways--more functional. Free"
The full article can be found here.
( Mai 19 2005, 10:51:58 AM CEST ) Permalink